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third-person singular simple present berings, present participle beringing, simple past and past participle beringed
(transitive, intransitive, dated) To encircle (something) with a ring or some other circular object (such as a shackle). quotations examples
[A]n elephant was captured for a time by the king's hunters and, ere he broke free, beringed with a grievous leg-iron.
1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IX, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, page 235